Having Trouble Installing Windows 11 on an Aspire A315-24P Laptop

I am upgrading my hard drive on my acer Aspire A315-24P laptop . I have downloaded windows 11 onto my flash drive and it seems to have installed Windows 11 perfectly fine on the new drive up until I get to the part where it requires internet connection to continue.

For some reason (even though I downloaded the latest WIFI driver from acer) it's not showing any available networks.

On start up, at the windows setup screen, I select "Custom: Install Windows only" and then it shows 5 drives ..... "Drive 0 Partition 1 - 4 & then a drive "Drive 0" that says unallocated space.

In this list I do not see the USB flash drive, just the new hard drive and the other partitions (one is a system, one says MSR, one says primary, and one says recovery.

So I then click "load driver" it is here that I am able to see "Local Disk(C), ESD-USB (the USB with the windows installer on it and the WIFI drive), and then boot(x).

When I click into the USB it allows me to install the new WIFI drive but after I progress through the process and get to the section where it is required to connect to a network, I see no networks.

I feel like I'm digging myself into a hole and think I'm overlooking something really simple.

Any help is appreciated.

naturemadehobbi said:

I am upgrading my hard drive on my acer Aspire A315-24P laptop . I have downloaded windows 11 onto my flash drive and it seems to have installed Windows 11 perfectly fine on the new drive up until I get to the part where it requires internet connection to continue.

For some reason (even though I downloaded the latest WIFI driver from acer) it's not showing any available networks.

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It would be easier for you to sort out the WiFi connection issues after you have completed the install of Windows. But to do that you need to get past the Out of Box Experience (OOBE setup) insisting that it requires an internet connection to proceed.

When you get to the screen asking for an internet connection press and hold the Shift key and press F10. This will open a command prompt window. Type the command OOBE\BypassNRO (all one word, no spaces). The PC will restart and this time round you will have the option of skipping the internet connection and completing the OOBE Setup with a local account.

If you wish to use a Microsoft account, then you can switch from a local account to a Microsoft account once you get the WiFi working.